Selected Papers on Discrete Mathematics (Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes) - Hardcover

Knuth, Donald E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1575862492 ISBN 13: 9781575862491

Publisher: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, 2001

Synopsis

Donald Knuth's influence in computer science ranges from the invention of literate programming to the development of the TeX programming language. One of the foremost figures in the field of mathematical sciences, his papers are widely referenced and stand as milestones of development over a wide range of topics. This volume assembles more than three dozen of Professor Knuth's pioneering contributions to discrete mathematics. It includes a variety of topics in combinatorial mathematics (finite geometries, graph theory, enumeration, partitions, tableaux, matroids, codes); discrete algebra (finite fields, groupoids, closure operators, inequalities, convolutions, Pfaffians); and concrete mathematics (recurrence relations, special numbers and notations, identities, discrete probability). Of particular interest are two fundamental papers in which the evolution of random graphs is studied by means of generating functions.

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Donald E. Knuth is one of the world's pre-eminent computer scientists, whose works have had a profound influence on the subject since the publication in 1968 of the first volume of The Art of Computer Programming. Knuth created TeX, a language for typesetting mathematical and scientific texts, and METAFONT, a computer software system for alphabet design. He is professor emeritus at Stanford University.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1575862492
• ISBN 13: 9781575862491
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400